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Robert W Service - The VisionaryRobert W Service - The Visionary
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If fortune had not granted me      To suck the Muse`s teats, I think I would have liked to be      A sweeper of the streets; And city gutters glad to groom,      Have heft a bonny broom.       There—as amid the crass and crush      The limousines swished by, I would have leaned upon my brush      With visionary eye: Deeming despite their loud allure      That I was rich, they poor. Aye, though in garb terrestrial,      To Heaven I would pray, And dream with broom celestial      I swept the Milky Way; And golden chariots would ring,      And harps of Heaven sing. And all the strumpets passing me,      And heelers of the Ward Would glorified Madonnas be,      And angels of the Lord; And all the brats in gutters grim      Be rosy cherubim.
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